State v. Cummings

Karen Diane Cummings appeals the circuit court’s judgment convicting her following a jury trial of one count of the class D felony of unlawful use of a weapon. We affirm the circuit court’s judgment.

Background

The State charged Cummings with violating section 571.030.1(4), RSMo,1 on or about December 1, 2014, by knowingly exhibiting, in the presence of one or more persons, a weapon readily capable of lethal use, in an angry or threatening manner.

The evidence at trial showed that,2 at the time of the charged crime, Cummings’ *112friend, Brenda Weigand, was in the midst of a divorce from Danny…